Academic & Digital Development

Dr Jamie Gallagher

Getting Social 

Getting your work on social media may be easy - but making it popular is more challenging. This workshop takes you through the main social media channels and looks at how to create share-worthy content messages. Discover how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible. Form tweets to live streams this session is packed with ideas of how to maximise your use of social media. 

Objectives

Following the session, you should be able to: 

• Raise your profile with social media 
• Know how to plan effective content to minimise the time requirement   
• Increase your following and interactions by creating sharable content 
• Create platform specific content for Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube 

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Getting Social

Dr Liana Beattie, Edge Hill University

Symbiotic Autoethnography 

This session will introduce you to this innovative approach to an autoethnographic inquiry and offer the best ways of applying it to a research project as well as suggesting a number of potential solutions to some of its polemical aspects. The session will be of interest to both experienced and novice scholars and researchers from a wide range of professional backgrounds. 

Biography

Liana is Assistant Head of Department (Faculty of Education) at Edge Hill University. Her research interests are mainly in the area of autoethnography, leadership in education, postmodernism as well as narrative research and creative methodologies. Her recent book is called Symbiotic Autoethnography: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/symbiotic-autoethnography-9781350201385/   

Slides

Symbiotic Autoethnography

Writing for the Learning and Teaching Conference

Dr Sarah Honeychurch, Academic and Digital Development 

By the end of this session attendees should be in a position to write their own abstract for the 2023 session. 

 Slides

 Writing for the LT Conf PPT

Inclusive Practice in Active Learning

Active Learning Network 

The Active Learning Network inaugural CPD programme is open to all staff at UofG. 

Each meeting will be delivered by members of the Active Learning community who contributed chapters to the 100+ ideas for active learning book. The first sessions will focus on Inclusive Practice.

Be prepared to engage in some active learning yourself of course and to take away a tool kit of ideas to try out in your own practice. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate as well as a chance to network with others interested in this topic.

Active Learning Network  

The Active Learning Network inaugural CPD programme is open to all staff at UofG. 

Each meeting will be delivered by members of the Active Learning community who contributed chapters to the 100+ ideas for active learning book. The second session will focus on Building Communities.

Be prepared to engage in some active learning yourself of course and to take away a tool kit of ideas to try out in your own practice. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate as well as a chance to network with others interested in this topic.

Empowering Learners with Active Learning

Active Learning Network

The Active Learning Network inaugural CPD programme is open to all staff at UofG. 

Each meeting will be delivered by members of the Active Learning community who contributed chapters to the 100+ ideas for active learning book. The third session will focus on Empowering Learners.

Be prepared to engage in some active learning yourself of course and to take away a tool kit of ideas to try out in your own practice. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate as well as a chance to network with others interested in this topic.

Writing an SSP application

SoTL Network

The Learning and Teaching Development Fund (LTDF) supports developments in the practice of learning and teaching that will make significant contributions to the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University and to the delivery of the objectives of the Learning and Teaching Strategy. This call for bids is specifically targeted at partnership work between students and members of academic staff. 

In this session we will look at what makes a good SSPS application by looking at the 2023 call for bids in detail. Staff involved in the 2022-23 SSPS will join the session to answer questions and contribute to a ‘warts and all’ discussion of the processes involved in applying for, and successfully running, a project. By the end of this session attendees should be in a position to write their own application for the 2023 round of funding.  

This session is open to staff of the University of Glasgow. There is no need to register, just join via the Zoom link. 

Parasitic Aggregation

Dr Nathalie Tasler, Academic and Digital Development

Dr Linnea Soler, School of Chemistry

Jonathan Bailey, states that “If you use or link to other content, you are probably an aggregator, at least in some capacity” (Bailey, 2010) and then follows with ‘we are all aggregators’ (Bailey, 2015). But there are different approaches to aggregation and, depending on how transparent the attribution is, these can be classified either as parasitic or symbiotic. We believe that transparency (Silverman, 2014) and how attribution is carried out underpin these critical differences. In this session we explore mechanisms for ethical aggregation and using sharing to create impact for the original creators and yourself.   

Blackout Poetry as a Tool for Teaching and Learning in HE

Dr Nathalie Tasler, Academic and Digital Development

Aimee Merridew, Keele University

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to blackout poetry as a teaching and learning tool in higher education. The workshop will introduce you to the facilitators' uses of blackout poetry as an arts-based method that supports academic practices across disciplines, before enabling you to create your own blackout poems from a selection of academic sources. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own source materials if you wish to tailor the activities to your own academic setting and reading interests (e.g. journal articles, extracts from fiction and non-fiction texts, or anything you would typically read for academic purposes individually and/or with students). The practical activity will be followed by group discussion, where you will be encouraged to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that may emerge from this creative way to develop academic practices, as well as to consider how this creative method can be used to support academic reading in your own teaching and learning contexts.